Word: rodino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Rodino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Peter Falk...
...RODINO PROMISES ACTION...
...comply with the right of defendants to have access to any evidence held by the Government that would tend to help their defense. Jaworski thus is not bound by any need to protect the secrecy of grand-jury proceedings. He might be free to give it to the Rodino committee voluntarily-or certainly if asked or subpoenaed...
...Rodino committee was in agreement, however, that the President was openly defying its authority and preventing its conclusive determination of his Watergate role by withholding pivotal evidence. Eight (out of 17) Republicans joined all but one of the committee's Democrats in voting, 28 to 10, to dispatch a sharp letter of protest to Nixon. It warned that "it is not within the power of the President to conduct an inquiry into his own impeachment, to determine which evidence, and what version or portion of that evidence, is relevant and necessary to such an inquiry." Committee members may draw...
...interrogation of witnesses that is to come later-would quickly bore a television audience. St. Clair argues that the hearings are not "substantial" and would not hurt Nixon's case, while leaks of information are unfair to his position. Still retaining control of the committee, Chairman Rodino intends to pursue inquiries into such areas as the ITT and milk price support controversies in closed meetings...